Inside the June 2022 Issue of Treatment Plant Operator
![A New Hampshire Plant Keeps Humming Along Through a Four-Year Upgrade](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F9ericgulbicki_plantop_biosolidsbldg_huberscrewpress-2.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=75&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=75&s=a837ff6361f9492e5715c2752b73d2df)
Excellent technology and design meant success for an upgrade at Peirce Island. So did close communication involving operators, engineers and construction contractors.
People/Awards; Events
![A Durable Receiving Station and a Fine Screen Helped this Facility Turn Septage Into an Asset](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fmontville1.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=75&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=75&s=6b7f8a31a216fb55caadb80783828eb8)
A Connecticut clean-water plant turns septage into a revenue-generating asset with a lineup of robust equipment and an automated management technology.
![Low-DO BNR: A Research Program Looks at How to Do It Cost-Effectively and at Full Scale](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Finmywords-stephanie.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.48&fp-y=0.27&h=75&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=75&s=924bcfae365829ce6924ac2e1227fca6)
The Water Research Foundation and utility partners are collaborating to fund a study of effective, energy-efficient biological nutrient removal methods.
![These Tiny Bubbles Do Huge Work in Clean-Water Plant Processes](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fmoleaer1.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=75&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=75&s=864d611aae15973a59cefcd9602559e6)
Nanobubble technology can deliver diverse benefits in treatment systems, like enhancing efficiency, controlling odors, improving effluent and saving money.
The Water Environment Federation offers scholarships to help aspiring and established operators improve their skills and ascend the licensing ladder.
Licensing exams can be challenging. Our Exam Study Guide helps you prepare by presenting questions similar to those on an actual exam. You can find many more sample questions on the TPO website at www.tpomag.com/study.
![Product Focus: Odor Control and Disinfection](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fcalgon_carbon_filtrasorb_sentry.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=75&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=75&s=750c4319f19bf3eab4937542689a2aa3)
![Case Studies: Odor Control and Disinfection](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2FTonkaWaterCaseStudy.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=75&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=75&s=dda3066ab2f5522be34349f2ca1382a1)
![Product Spotlight - Water: June 2022](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fproduct_spotlight_abb_aquamaster4.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=75&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=75&s=951b6770e07cf2c23bc53492b5e4c67c)
![Product Spotlight - Wastewater: June 2022](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fproduct_spotlight_thompson_pump_6jsce.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=75&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=75&s=30d4bbb7416f2eb3335851c8949801eb)
![Product News - June 2022](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Foz-compozite_march_2022.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=75&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=75&s=0f20fe60859d30865176c26d0cf3efe1)
![Industry News - June 2022](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fjoe_kratochvil.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=75&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=75&s=a5c721e09325c001ffe7e32e0806d2c7)
![A Collaborative Long-Term Project Helps a Northeast Wisconsin Clean-Water Agency Control Phosphorus](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fnewwater3.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=75&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=75&s=26caea60c42dfb3a0c714de7a852328e)
Wisconsin farmers, Oneida Nation and other partners join a Green Bay utility in a project to improve water quality.
![An Illinois Plant Deploys the Aero-Mod SEQUOX Process to Provide Biological Treatment With Room to Grow](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2F77hinkley_20220325.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=75&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=75&s=30236bece0cd37229bd3288ece88eb0a)
An innovative biological nutrient removal process helps an Illinois village complete a successful plant expansion, improve treatment quality and end a consent decree.
![Forty Years in Clean Water. No Plans to Retire](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fwade_lagle_-_urbana_champaign_sanitary_district_025.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=75&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=75&s=e0bd6137d9fe8e4f747f5e08168b7c8c)
When Wade Lagle finds a career he likes, he sticks with it. That’s why he’s been in the wastewater industry since high school.
![Daphnia Problem? Here's How One Clean-Water Plant Gobbled It Up](https://cole-tpomag.imgix.net/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.tpomag.com%2Fuploads%2Fimages%2Fbluegills2.jpg?crop=focalpoint&fit=crop&fp-x=0.5&fp-y=0.5&h=75&ixlib=php-1.1.0&q=75&w=75&s=6b7d708b569cf3f30c165336c24f9de4)
An operations team sends a swarm of bluegills to gobble up a nuisance overpopulation of Daphnia at a Washington clean-water plant.